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An Oak Lawn man has been charged with two counts of assault for threatening to shoot two off-duty Chicago police officers stopped at a traffic light, Oak Lawn police said. Eric Hernandez, 27, was charged Aug. 12 after the two officers identified him as the man who approached them on foot last month while they were stopped in separate cars at 95th Street and Pulaski Road, authorities said. He held his hand under his shirt, implying he had a gun in his waistband, and threatened to shoot them, authorities alleged.

A West Side man was killed Wednesday morning when his car went out of control and slammed into a light pole in the Austin neighborhood, police said. James Phillips, 56, was driving south in the 1100 block of North Central Avenue about 10:30 a.m. when he lost control of his 2002 Cadillac Escalade and it struck a pole, police said. Investigators believe the victim may have suffered some sort of medical emergency before the crash. Phillips of the 5000 block of West Chicago Avenue was pronounced dead in West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park shortly after the crash, according to a Cook County medical examiner's office spokesman.

Rick Neuheisel is returning to college coaching at the school where he first found fame and success. Neuheisel, a quarterback who was the most valuable player in UCLA's 1984 Rose Bowl victory over Illinois and later served as a Bruins assistant under Terry Donahue, was hired Saturday as his alma mater's 16th coach. His five-year contract is for $1.25 million annually, plus incentives. Neuheisel, 46, succeeds Karl Dorrell, who was fired Dec. 3 after five seasons on the job. "[College football]

Police want to talk to rapper Fat Joe about a fatal shooting he might have witnessed in Miami's South Beach. Witnesses told investigators that Fat Joe was seen riding in the same car, a black Cadillac Escalade, as the two victims in the Memorial Day shooting. Police believe he is an acquaintance of the victims, The Associated Press reports. "If he's a witness, we'd love to speak with him," a police spokesman said.

A Joliet man died over the weekend after he got out of his disabled car on southbound Interstate Highway 55 and was struck by an oncoming sport-utility vehicle, state police said Monday. Darrell Kassis, 21, was pronounced dead at 6:35 a.m. Saturday. He was struck at about 4:30 a.m. near the Interstate Highway 355 exit, said Illinois State Police Sgt. John Creedon. Creedon said Kassis left his 1999 Buick Crown Victoria, which was on the middle shoulder of the interstate after one of his tires blew out, to talk to another driver who had stopped to help.

Miami Heat center and Miami Beach reserve officer Shaquille O'Neal has done it again--this time helping police nab a hit-and-run driver. It was 4 a.m. Sunday, and O'Neal and bodyguard Jerome Crawford had just returned from a game in Chicago in which O'Neal, recovering from knee surgery, didn't play. They were outside Crawford's Coconut Grove home unloading luggage when a car, driven by Emmnueo Cibrin, 18, allegedly veered into O'Neal's parked 2007 Cadillac Escalade. O'Neal and his bodyguard saw Cibrin leaving the scene, and leapt into the damaged SUV to give chase.

Authorities have identified the driver killed in a head-on two-vehicle crash Wednesday in St. Charles Township. Robert Brown, 57, of the 1800 block of Cambridge Lane in St. Charles was driving a Toyota Camry on Randall Road north of Crane Road when his car crossed the center line and struck a Cadillac Escalade. The three occupants of the Cadillac were treated and released from a local hospital. The crash is still under investigation.

A chiropractor who worked for the health and the civil rights of Pilsen residents was killed in a head-on car crash in rural Kane County, police said Friday. Associates said Nicolas Martinez, 45, of Elmhurst was returning from a daylong camping trip with his two children Thursday night when his 2004 Cadillac Escalade was struck by a Volkswagen Jetta that witnesses said was being driven recklessly. Martinez and the driver of the Jetta, whom police identified as Gautum Viswanadhan, 39, of Montgomery died in the crash.

Chicago police have a 25-year-old man in custody and are searching for a second man for car theft and a carjacking that led to a pedestrian being struck on the Gold Coast before a crash early Tuesday. James Crosby of the 900 block of North Hudson Avenue was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking, leaving the scene of an accident that involved injury, aggravated fleeing an accident that involved bodily injury and aggravated fleeing from police, Officer John Mirabelli said. Crosby and another man allegedly stole a car on the South Side at about 2:19 a.m. before driving to the 700 block of North Wells Street.